What You Should Know:
- Tampa General Hospital announces a
seven-year strategic partnership with Philips to innovate and improve patient
experience.
- As part of the partnership, Tampa
General will replace all bedside patient and vital sign monitors throughout the
1,006-bed hospital and upgrade key imaging equipment in the catheterization
laboratories and interventional radiology rooms.
Tampa General Hospital
(TGH) and Philips today
announced they are creating a
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Parexel Acquires Healthcare NLP Provider Roam Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Parexel acquires healthcare software company Roam
Analytics, Inc. to strengthen and enhance Parexel’s pharmacovigilance (PV)
services.
- The acquisition provides significant opportunities to
apply Roam Analytics’ natural language processing (NLP) technology to further
streamline and extract insights from unstructured data.
- Parexel will also use Roam’s AI technology to leverage
various data, from clinical notes, medical images, patient surveys,
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Ascensia Diabetes Care Partners With VisiQuate to Expand Beyond Blood Glucose Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Ascensia Diabetes Care and VisiQuate announced a
partnership to expand beyond blood glucose monitoring and provide holistic
diabetes management solutions.
- The overall solution will provide integration with
Ascensia’s existing devices and digital diabetes solutions to enable it to
capture data from patients who have consented to provide their information.
Ascensia Diabetes Care,
a Santa Rosa, CA-based provider of blood glucose monitoring systems
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RADLogics Secures FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Chest X-Ray App for Triage & Prioritization
What You Should Know:
- RADLogics today announced that it has secured
510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s novel AI-Powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application,
which identifies and prioritizes chest X-ray scans that appear
to contain a pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, for urgent radiologist review.
- RADLogics’ FDA cleared CT and X-ray solutions
– including this application – are
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Medable Launches TeleConsent for Clinical Trials to Streamline Approvals During Decentralized Trials
What You Should Know:
- Medable launches Teleconsent, part of its Telehealth
family of cloud-based software for decentralized clinical trials.
- The application represents the next big step in
enabling fully virtual trials and is key to patient-centric trial design
because it allows patients to handle the lengthy process of consenting – and
re-consenting – to trial participation conveniently from anywhere.
Medable Inc.,
a software provider for decentralized clinical trials,
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Backed by Kaiser, Osso VR Raises $14M for VR Surgical Training Platform
What You Should Know:
- Osso VR raises $14M in Series A funding led by Kaiser
Permanente Ventures (KPV) to expand its virtual reality (VR) surgical training
platform.
- Using immersive VR technology, Osso VR’s scalable platform offers a realistic, hands-on training environment that leads to real-world performance gains and ultimately improved patient outcomes.
Osso VR, a Palo Alto, CA-based validated Virtual Reality (VR) surgical training platform, today announced it has raised $14M
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Hannover Re Taps Neurotrack to Offer Digital Brain Health Assessments
What You Should Know:
- Neurotrack today shows how life insurers are now taking
brain health seriously, as Hannover Re, one of the world's largest reinsurers,
becomes one of the first life insurance companies to offer digital brain health
assessments.
- The partnership between Neurotrack and Hannover Re US
is the first of its kind in the United States, following Neurotrack’s
successful rollout with Japanese life insurers SOMPO Himawari Life and Dai-ichi
Life, which offer Neurotrack’s
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Designating Ownership of Provider Data Will Improve Care Coordination, Study Finds
What You Should Know:
- New LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care survey reveals
that 63% of respondents believe designating ownership of provider data will
improve care coordination, yet only 18% of organizations report having a
dedicated data governance department
- The survey results are based on over 100 qualified
responses from organizations across the industry, including independent
hospitals, teaching hospitals, independent physician groups, and federally
qualified health
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Anthem, Apple Launches 2-Year Digital Asthma Study with Apple Watch
What You Should Know:
- Anthem, Inc. announced a new study that examines how
the use of everyday devices, like Apple Watch and iPhone, may help individuals
with asthma, led by the University of California, Irvine.
- Launching in the fall, the two-year, randomized controlled
study will enroll participants from Anthem-affiliated health plans who have
been clinically diagnosed with asthma.
-Anthem, Inc. today a new study that examines how the use of everyday devices, like Apple Watch
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ApolloMD Partners with Cedar to Implement Optimized Online Patient Billing Experience
What You Should Know:
- ApolloMD, a multispecialty clinical services provider for hospitals and health systems partners with patient engagement and financial technology platform Cedar to enabled an improved online billing experience for patients.
- With Cedar, ApolloMD can now provide a digital billing
experience built for patients, leading to better engagement.
ApolloMD, a
multispecialty clinical services provider for hospitals and health systems, and
Cedar, a leading
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